Getting northern hemisphere teams on board is key to the proposed new World 12s being a success, and Sir Steve Hansen knows it. If we can do that, I can’t see it [World 12s] not being a success,” he said. World 12s is targetting 192 players for eight franchises. Anthony Au-Yeung/Getty Images All Black Richie Mo’unga would attract plenty of interest in any World 12s player auction. If you could say to a Super player ‘you’re only going to play 60 minutes for the next three weeks’, you're prolonging people’s careers.”

Source: Stuff September 09, 2021 03:33 UTC